Refrigerator



(No Model.)

S. GRAY. Refrigerator.

Patented May 31, 188i.

ATTORNEY T D STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SYLVESTER GRAY, OF HUNTERS POINT, NEW YORK. V

REFRIGERATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,303, dated May 31, 1881.

Application filed April 1, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SYLVESTER GRAY, of Hunters Point, county of Queens, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Refrigerators, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to furnish for refrigerators of all kinds an improved watercooling attachment, which may be readily put into new or old refrigerators, easily filled with water, and conveniently removed and replaced for cleaning.

The invention consists of the combination, with the ice-chamber, of a water-cooler applied to the inner walls of the refrigerator, and connected to the outside by a faucet passing from a point near the bottom of the cooler through the wall of the refrigerator. The water-cooler has a lid, which is hinged at the rear end, one side and the front edge being set back, so as not to interfere with the walls of the ice-chamher.

The accompanying drawing represents a perspective view of a refrigerator with my improved water-cooling attachment.

1n the drawing, A represents a refrigerator of any approved construction, whether it be an upright or chest refrigerator. In the icechamber B of the same is arranged a watercooler, (l, which is preferably made of copper or galvanized sheet-iron and of sufficient size to contain from three to seven quarts of water,

according to the size of the refrigerator with which it is to be used. One side wall of the water-cooler O is provided with extension eyes or rings a, by which the water-cooler O is sus pended from hooks or pins 1) driven into the side wall of the ice chamber, the cooler being preferably set into one of the front corners of the ice-chamber. The contents of the cooler are drawn off by means of a faucet, D, which extends through the front wall of the refrigerator to the outside, the hole for the faucet being bored through the wall, and preferably provided with a bushing having an interior and exterior screw-thread. The inner end of the faucet D screws into a hole of the cooler near (N0 model.)

the bottom of the same, so as to readily draw off the contents by means of the faucet.

By unscrewing the faucet the water-cooler may be readily unhooked and removed for cleaning. It is then replaced in position and secured by the faucet to the front wall of the refrigerator.

The water-cooler C may be open at the top, but is preferably provided with a lid, 0, which is hinged at its rear edge to the water-cooler, so as to open in the same manneras the lids of the ice-chamber and refrigerator and be closed with the same. The front edge of the lid 0, as well as the side edge next to the wall of the ice-chamber, is set at a sufficient distance from the front and side walls of the refrigerator so as to clear the same in opening or closing without interfering with the suspension devices and the projecting cleats in which rests the lid of the ice-chamber.

By means of this attachment a regular supply of cold water can be obtained from the refrigerator without chilling the water by direct contact with the ice, as in the water-coolers and ice-pitchers, and of mixing it with the melted-ice-water. A water-cooler connected to the refrigerator in this manner is also more economical, as the water is cooled by the ice of the refrigerator without requiring ice for separate water-coolers or ice-pitchers.

Having thus de cribed my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent In arefrigerator, a water-cooler suspended in the preserving-chamber and having a re movable screw-faucet and hinged lid, in combination with the ice-box and detachable fastenings, which hold the cooler to the outside of the ice-box.

In testimony that I claim the foiegoing as my invention 1 have signed my name, in presence of two witnesses, this 17th day of March,

Witnesses PAUL GOEPEL,. CARL KARP. 

